"Today's another exciting day as we move closer to Beta 1. We are just wrapping up the MVP summit here in Redmond and we've finally announced another piece of functionality I've wanted to talk about for a long time now. This afternoon Steven Sinofsky announced to our MVPs that we will build in native support for the PDF format in Office 12."

I don't know Word 2.0 but I know that Wordperfect 6.0a had a lot more functionality than most people would ever use, even today. But it also lacks something which we need today, like support for long filenames (limitation in DOS/Windows 3.x).

A lot of the "bloat" could be removed with a more modular construction, but that's probably not going to happen for a long while I'm afraid, even though it technically is very easy to do, and gives much better performance (when done right, that is).